The unusual orbit of a possible dwarf planet, known as 2017 OF201, makes it less likely that our solar system contains a ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our ...

To isolate emissions from the galaxy, the New Horizons team modeled ... known to surround our solar system and nearby stars, that was formed by nearby supernova events a few million years ago ...

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It's possible for our solar system to capture a rogue planet and give it a home as it hurtles through the galaxy, according to a new study. In 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS1 observatory were ...

To isolate emissions from the galaxy, the New Horizons team modeled ... known to surround our solar system and nearby stars, that was formed by nearby supernova events a few million years ago ...

An enormous glowing cloud that contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas has been discovered near the solar ...

A giant object that has been lurking in the relative galactic vicinity of the Solar System this entire time has just been ...

made of gas and dust that fills the space between stars within a galaxy, serves as raw material for new star formation. "When we look through our telescopes, we catch whole solar systems in the ...

Water ice shapes the outer regions of our Solar System in profound ways, forming the thick crusts of moons like Europa and ...